Wire binder.



E. H. KERNS.

WIRE 'BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I. 1913.

1,261,036. I Patented APR-2, 1918.

EVRAND H. KERNS, OF WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK.

Winn BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

Application filed October 1, 1913. Serial No. 792,892.

ments in. wire binders consisting of two wires twisted one upon the other in such manner as to form loops at regular predetermined intervals throughout its length through any one of which either end of the.

hanger may be tightly drawn around a pipe or other object so as to interlock another loop therewith in a manner hereinafter described but it is clearly evident that the same device may be used as a bale tie, barrel hoop, and for many other purposes without departing from the spirit of this invention.

The main object is to provide a comparatively inexpensive wire binder adapted to be tightly drawn around a pipe or other object and automatically locked when tightened and, at the same time, allowing one end of the twisted wire to be out 01f at any point leaving one or more loops for engaging a hook, nail or othersupport whereby the pipe or other object may be suspended, or when the device is used as a binder for bales or hoops, both ends may be out off close to the interlocking hoops by suitable nippers.

Other objects relating to the specific construction of the device will be brought out .in the following description.

In the drawings: 7

Figure'l is a perspective View of my'improved pipe hanger as applied to a pipe for suspending the same in which the loops, formed by the twisted wires, are of sufficient length to allow any one of the other loops to be drawn therethrough flatwise andthen turned so as to interlock with either end thereof.

Fig. 2 is a face view of a portion of th same hanger shown in Fig. 1.

The loops shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are provided with relatively large central portions -7 and contracted ends 8- forming openings which are connected by relatively narrow passages -9- of sufiicient width to permit the twisted portions, as -l0--, to be drawn therethrough. The combined length of the openings in each loop is greater than the widest portion --7 of such loop to permit another loop to be drawn flatwise therethrough and then turned a quarter turn to mterlock the two loops with each other, it being noted that the device is constructed of wire which will bend and remain'in the position given the same.

Either before or after one end of the hanger has been drawn around the pipe and locked in the manner described, the opposite end may be similarly drawn through an apertured clamping device C and adjacent loops and interlocked in substantially the same manner as that described for the pipe.

What I claim isi A wire binder of the character described, consisting. of two juxtaposed wires twisted together at regular intervals throughout its length and other portions between the twisted portions untwisted, and each untwisted portion consisting of a central opening formed by bending the wires on an arc of a circle and relatively smaller end, openings formed by bending the wires on the are of a circle, the wires being contracted at their junctions with the center opening, but opening thereinto, thereby forming a con- "tinuous opening in each untwisted portion of greater length than the diameter of the center opening, in which the ends of the continuous opening are restricted to a width considerably less than the interior diameter of the center opening and of approximately the diameter of the twisted portions of the wire, one of said untwisted portions adapted to be passed through the opening formed in another untwisted portion and subsequently twisted to prevent accidentalwithdrawal of the same.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of September, 1913.

EVRAND H. KERNS.

Witnesses:

H. E. CHAsE, EVA E. GREENLEAF.

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' Washington, D. 0. 

